Werner Attinger is a former Swiss curler. He played second position on the Swiss rink that won the 1984 European Curling Championships and a silver medal at the 1984 World Men's Championship.
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| Curling club | CC Dübendorf, Dübendorf[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member Association |  Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Championship appearances | 1 (1984) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| European Championship appearances | 4 (1984, 1988, 1996, 1998) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other appearances | World Senior Championships: 1 (2013) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Teams edit
| Season | Skip | Third | Second | Lead | Alternate | Coach | Events |
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| 1983–84 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Kurt Attinger | SMCC 1984  WCC 1984 
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| 1984–85 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Kurt Attinger | ECC 1984
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| 1986–87 | Peter Attinger Jr. | Werner Attinger | Martin Zürrer | Kurt Attinger | SMCC 1987 
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| 1988–89 | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Martin Zürrer | Marcel Senn | ECC 1988 SMCC 1989
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| 1989–90 | Bernhard Attinger | Werner Attinger | Martin Zürrer | Marcel Senn | SMCC 1990
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| 1991–92 | Bernhard Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Werner Attinger | Thomas Grendelmeier | SMCC 1992
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| 1995–96 | Felix Luchsinger | Werner Attinger | Markus Foitek | Markus Luchsinger | SMCC 1996
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| 1996–97 | Felix Luchsinger | Werner Attinger | Markus Foitek | Markus Luchsinger | Thomas Grendelmeier | Frédéric Jean | ECC 1996
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| 1997–98 | Felix Luchsinger | Werner Attinger | Andreas Schwaller | Thomas Grendelmeier | SMCC 1998
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| 1998–99 | Felix Luchsinger | Werner Attinger | Thomas Grendelmeier | Markus Luchsinger | Markus Foitek | Frédéric Jean | ECC 1998 (5th) |
| 2000–01 | Werner Attinger | Sacha Knobel | Markus Arnold | Thomas Kuhn | Christian Moser | SMCC 2001
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| 2012–13 | Werner Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Ronny Müller | Tony Knobel | Bernhard Attinger (WSCC) | SSCC 2013 WSCC 2013
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| 2014–15 | Werner Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Ronny Müller | Tony Knobel | SSCC 2015
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| 2015–16 | Werner Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Ronny Müller | Tony Knobel | SSCC 2016
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| 2016–17 | Werner Attinger | Peter Attinger Jr. | Ronald Müller | Marc Brügger | Tony Knobel | SSCC 2017
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Private life edit
Werner Attinger grew up in a family of curlers. His father Peter Attinger Sr. is a 1972 Swiss men's champion. His brothers - Peter Jr., Bernhard, Ruedi and Kurt - are curlers too, they won Swiss and European championships and Worlds medals when they played in Peter Jr.'s team. His nephew (Peter Jr.'s son) Felix is skip of team, he won Swiss men's silver in 2017 and bronze in 2016; Peter Jr. coached his team.[4] Bernhard's daughter Sandra Ramstein-Attinger[5] is a competitive curler too, she played on three Women's Worlds with teams skipped by Silvana Tirinzoni and Binia Feltscher-Beeli.[6]
References edit
- ^ Curling Club Dübendorf(in German)
- ^ Curling Schweizermeisterschaft - www.ccflims.ch - 3. bis 20. Februar 2016, Flims(in German) (at last page list of all Swiss curling champion teams: men's 1943—2015 and women's 1964—2015; before 2003 team line-ups shown in reverse order: alternate (if exists), lead, second, third, skip)
- ^ Erfolge des Curling Club Dübendorf(in German)
- ^ "40 Jahre Curling-Club Dübendorf: Die Attinger-Saga". Neue Zürcher Zeitung AG, Schweiz. 2002-09-18. Retrieved 2017-09-14.(in German)
- ^ Sandra Ramstein-Attinger on the World Curling database
- ^ Auf der Spur des Familienerfolgs - Curling Club Wetzikon(in German)
External links edit
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